Al-Khwarizmi's life was special, and now I will be
telling you what kind of family he had. Al-Khwarizmi was born in in
Uzbekistan. His parents migrated to south of Baghdad when he was only a
little kid. We don't know much about Al-Khwarizmi parents. He did Arab math so his
family was probably Muslim. His family also might have known Latin because most
of his books are translated into Latin. His books were translated into a bunch
of other languages as well but Latin is the most common.

If al-Khwarizmi
lived in a different place at a different time, many things would
be different for him. If Al-Khwarizmi lived in 2001 in
Japan, he probably would have written most of his books in Japanese. He wouldn’t
have been a 'olden days' mathematician, he would have been a nowadays mathematician.
He probably would not have studied the lines of latitude because the people who
invented it with him might have already invented it. I bet he would study the
solar system because it includes math and also geography. One of the reasons why
al-Khwarizmi did math was because the government wanted him to do math. If he
lived in Japan he probably would have the governments’ support but the government
might not have supported him as strongly as the other government did,
so he might not have created and discovered so many different kinds of math.
Also, his family might have not migrated if he lived in Japan, then we would
basically here more about his parents and know their names and what they did.
If he lived in yet another place it would probably be different too.
Al-Khwarizmi has translated stuff into different languages, but not English.
Later on someone translated a book of his into English and then that book got
translated into Chinese. If he were to live in America then he probably would
have written his books in American, and then another language. I think that his
second language would be Latin since that also was a popular language back then
in America. He also might have studied a different kind of math too. For example
I think that he would help see how much fuel a rocket needed to get to Mars or
Saturn. There would have been this great big chance that the people who helped
him invent his math would have invented the degree lines of Latitude without
him.

In the web sites we have looked in they have
been al-Khwarizmi’ name written in two slightly different ways: Abu Abdullah
Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi and Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. When we
write down his full name we will be using the second name that we have listed.
You see that his name is not just al-Khwarizmi, it is longer than just that,
probably because it is a Middle East name. The dates of his life which we all
decided on are he was born770 AD and he died 840AD. There were different dates
for these too.